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by lxgr 7mo ago
> If the bike lane is a dedicated one, pedestrians are very rarely in it. Pedestrians step onto the dedicated bike lane I use to commute on average at least once per way for me. > But yes if all else fails, the road is preferable to
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by lxgr 7mo ago
To be clear, I am still reducing my speed if I don't get positive confirmation that I've been noticed or if there's not enough time for a reaction to even happen. My bell just gives me the significant improvement of possibly
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Collective and popular protests helped by an oil crisis Sounds neither simple nor technical.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'm completely in favor of building dedicated infrastructure, but I can't do that by myself. (Also, how do you prevent pedestrians from crossing said dedicated infrastructure without looking? Should it be fenced off? But I agree t
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by lxgr 7mo ago
These things take both time and massive political will. As somebody living in a city that's quite bike friendly, all things concerned, but still not close to Dutch or Danish levels of biking safety, I'll take any "technical s
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by lxgr 7mo ago
If you know of a simple technical solution to transform the entire world into the Netherlands, I'm all ears!
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by lxgr 7mo ago
What's your easy technical solution to improve common sense, then? Or is it the all time classic of "just improving society"? I'm all ears for your ideas.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Wearing a seatbelt cost next to nothing in inconvenience. Not being able to listen to music or have phone calls with noise cancellation while walking does not really compare. Of course this requires compensating for the loss in awareness th
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Draw a line, say this is for bicycles, pedestrians and cars have no business here, and bikes have no business being on any other lane as long as these exist. This is the reality in many cities, if it weren't for the hopefully not
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by lxgr 7mo ago
On my bike commute route, I'd lose my voice before the first meeting of the day if I had to use only my voice.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Do horns and bells really prevent accidents? They absolutely do, for indirect reasons: > Generally it's a lot easier just to press the brake Maybe easier, but it hardly seems fair, nor realistic. With a bit of experience, you c
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by lxgr 7mo ago
This is amazing. Would be great if emergency vehicle sirens could also adopt these findings. I feel like they're beyond painfully loud these days.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Yes, it should be PWh/year.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I have my doubts about short and medium term feasibility, and much more importantly storage and adapting carbon-based industrial processes. But yes, if all it took was 5% of landmass (which also doesn’t get permanently unusable nor polluted
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Yeah, seems like I got a wire/SI prefix crossed there. The land use should fit in terms of orders of magnitude, though.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I guess the argument goes more like: If nobody were to attempt to steal anything, you don’t need security for your ledger anyway.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Germany uses “,” as the decimal separator.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
To me, the point of a review is to tell me – without spoilers – whether it manages to deliver a compelling ending, presents interesting ideas etc. If I really just want to know whether I like the prose, I can indeed read the first few pages
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Why not? Germany's total energy consumption is estimated to be around 1-2 TWh/y. This could be generated by photovoltaics covering less than 5% of its land surface. There are significant problems around rolling out that much capac
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That's not the problem; Germany has enough space to build solar and wind capacity to satisfy its consumption – on average. The problem is storage.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Note that "gas" in this context means natural gas, not gasoline Of course it does, why would anybody say "gas" when they are talking about a liquid? :p
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by lxgr 7mo ago
This particular book does not seem to be sold DRM-free.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'd love to support the author more directly and "actually own" the ebook, but I have absolutely no interest in physical/printed books.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Also his second anthology! In terms of ideas, Chiang and qntm are a tie for absolute favorite for me. I've probably thought about each individual short story more than about some entire series or multi-season TV shows in combination.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
My hard disagree on the Bobiverse as well. Feels like the typical book I ought to like based on my interests and the other things I like, but the ideas somehow fall way, way short of qntm's writing. And +1 on "Annihilation" –
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Overall, I think the author relies too much on a vocal fandom around the SCP Foundation to glorify the book. The author has self-published several other short stories and novels completely unrelated to the SCP wiki long before this was
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by lxgr 7mo ago
On the other hand, humans made these AI models... I feel like the more important distinction might be whether the creator(s) are expressing themselves or are solving an optimization problem of maximizing audience approval. The latter seems
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> The initial feeling I get is “yeah this is nice”, but then you realize the lyrics are weird, some words don’t exist, the voice is off… To be fair, you could say the same thing about at least a few pre-AI pop songs.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I wonder if this is due to abliteration actually "damaging" the model, or just an artifact of the model never having been properly trained on "forbidden" topics (as it's enough for them to recognize them, and there&
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Have you tried submerging yourself in moderately hot water, I wonder? Yes. > have you spent some time pondering the difference in heat transfer between convection and conduction? Also yes, but not in this context. I don't think

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